“I was humbled and honored to even sit next to that child who had already seen too much.”

Refugee Internship

“I was humbled and honored to even sit next to that child who had already seen too much.”

As we got ready to leave, I typed one more thing into google translate, “Do you know why I am here?”

She shook her head with a curious look on her face.

I drew, on the same page with the airplane and me in Vienna, a little girl standing next to me, and pointed to her. Her eyes widened and she asked, “Me? Because of me?” I nodded, wanting also to wrap her up and kiss her a billion times, and she shyly smiled, eyes wide and in wonder, giggling quietly.